i am a visiting scholar in NYU’s anthropology department (i am studying the resurgence of psychedelics in American psychiatry)

i am in the liberal arts faculty at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee (i teach history & anthropology to dancers and musicians)

i was a lecturer in Harvard’s History of Science Department

i was a postdoctoral scholar in the Synthetic Neurobiology Group at MIT’s Media Lab (i was looking at the neuroendocrinology of affective relationships and decision-making)

i was a visiting scholar in MIT’s Initiative on Technology & Self (i was looking at how social media was evolving artist-audience relationships)

i was a postdoctoral scholar in MIT’s Program on Emerging Technologies (i looked at how market research shaped psychiatric drug advertising)

i got a Ph.D. from MIT’s Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (my dissertation was about psychiatric drug marketing)

i got a master’s degree in cognitive science from Johns Hopkins University (my thesis was about the psychology of sentence comprehension)

i got a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and the history of math & science from St. John’s College (my thesis was on Don Quixote)

i went to and dropped out of the contemporary improvisation program at the New England Conservatory of Music (i hit things)